Mickey 17's premise is of your job being to die. That idea is such a natural progression to a capitalist critique like Parasite that those were my expectations going into the film. But Bong Joon Ho seems less concerned in politics than in psychology in this one.
Politically the dystopian vision of the world is muddled with pretty obliquely utopian resolutions that I found a little too clean to swallow. The movie approaches dehumanization, colonialism, fascism. And each resolution is…
